In <32523ee1.1469024@news.mis.nb.ca> chasede@mis.ca writes: >>On 2 Oct 1996 02:11:02 GMT, ebc@ix.netcom.com(Errol Back-Cunningham)>wrote:>>>:|>>>:|>>>:|>>"The truth. No; by nature man is more afraid of the truth than of>:|>> death--and this is perfectly natural: for the truth is even more>:|>> repugnant than death to a man's natural being. What wonder,>:|>> then, that he is so afraid of it? ... For man is a social>:|>> animal--only in the herd is he happy. It is all one to him>:|>> whether it is the profoundest nonsense or the greatest>villainy--he>:|>> feels completely at ease with it, so long as it is a view of the>:|>> herd, or the action of the herd, and he is able to join the>herd.">:|>>>:|>> Soren Kierkegaard>:|>>>:|>>:|> Love it.>:|>>:|> Errol>>>What if the "truth" is: A life situation in which - one finds himself>being the best thing since sliced bread ?????????????? Good lover>BMW in the 2-car garage...beloved of his company, fast tracked for the>top...the church elders all dote on him etc etc etc ...>>Naw. S.K.'s outta context here somehow

What you've described is a well-attributed member of the herd.
There is nothing non-herd in that analogy.